{"product_id":"9780007548385_victorians-undone-tales-of-the-flesh-in-the-age-of-decorum","title":"Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum","description":"\u003ch2\u003e‘Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did the great philosophical novelist George Eliot feel so self-conscious that her right hand was larger than her left?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExactly what made Darwin grow that iconic beard in 1862, a good five years after his contemporaries had all retired their razors?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho knew Queen Victoria had a personal hygiene problem as a young woman and the crisis that followed led to a hurried commitment to marry Albert?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat did John Sell Cotman, a handsome drawing room operator who painted some of the most exquisite watercolours the world has ever seen, feel about marrying a woman whose big nose made smart people snigger?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did a working-class child called Fanny Adams disintegrate into pieces in 1867 before being reassembled into a popular joke, one we still reference today, but would stop, appalled, if we knew its origins?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathryn Hughes follows a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice into the realms of social history, medical discourse, aesthetic practise and religious observance – its language is one of admiring glances, cruel sniggers, an implacably turned back. The result is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895298543765,"sku":"9780007548385","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007548385_9b22ff5a-f562-4367-8c9a-9a5283996bde.jpg?v=1776888340","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007548385_victorians-undone-tales-of-the-flesh-in-the-age-of-decorum","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}